Seventy percent believe it should be illegal. Sixty eight percent said they’ve been personally cyber bullied or witnessed another victim being harassed, but only 1 in 5 reported it.

Senator Klein plans to use the results from the online survey to pass legislation that would make cyber bullying against the law in New York. The measure is expected to define cyber bullying for the first time making it easier to set school policies and to enforce laws.

Lam and his friends so disturbed by the war of words online, they founded a non profit to help victims across the world.

“It’s just as bad as a lot of things we label as crimes in our society and we need to adapt to the times. This is a crime,” Noah Salzman said.

“You can’t do that to people without having ramifications,” said Olivia Novick.